8.3 million for a game which is nearly a decade old is mind-boggling really. Subs will drop, there's only so long people can enjoy what is fundamentally the same game. I kind of hope subs continue to shrink so there's greater incentive to merge all the low-pop and badly balanced servers into more robust, dynamic populations. I think WoW has reached a point where the size of the player base is doing more harm than good to the game.
If we can see it drop to ~7 million or so that could be for the best.
I didnt link them here, it was in another thread. Why would they make another Mmo like wow when they have wow? And i linked many sources and some well known facts such as the Dev team and their interviews. There would be no business sense in making another wow. The idea is to make Titan really challenging and make it a E-sport players will respect and put in their tournaments while leaving wow for the players wanting less of a challenge. I am writing a essay for college but i will gladly start a thread later linking all of the info that i have.
Altalysm er I mean Cataclysm was a reason for a lot of people going fuck this. granted I will say the amount of dallies you had to do to get gear this Expac was awful, it's better then what was handed out to people at the tail ends of Warth and even MORE so in Cata, i literally had 8 toons that were geared enough to run regular DS. Dallies are not the way to go, but unless they come up with a new way to take up peoples time they aren't going to go away.
until the game drops below 100k subs i doubt it will stop being produced
what have we learned about opening threads about sub losses? opinions are like....oh wait am i aloud to say that? well, everyone has one. even the people who quit WoW but can't seem to leave the forums when this kind of stuff pops up. 8.3m is still a huge number. anyone who says otherwise is just trolling. look at the facts, the game has been around for years, and has had MILLIONS of subs for most of those years. WoW is far from dead.
oh boy, better run and hide before the "WOW IS DYING!!!! I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!" threads start poppin' up everywhere.
Compared to Cataclysm, it's much better.If you think this game is "improving" you are completely delusional
Compared to Wrath, less so. I know lots of people will disagree, but I am prefering MOP to TBC. Seriously, I'm not even sure what I did during TBC, I didn't raid. Did a few BGs and dungeons a week (when I could find a tank which wasn't always possible), and the sunwell dailies.
Which isn't all that different to my experience now, only I managed to find a fairly laid back once-a-week raid group in WOTLK and have stuck with them ever since.
For me, WOTLK was the peak, but I really don't think MOP is that far behind. The biggest criticsm I have of the game is that after so many years it is all getting a bit... samey.
That's like saying "I'm enjoying this non air-conditioned cross-country road trip with my family more than that drug-free root canal." I haven't logged in to WoW in quite some time and every time I do I spend about 10 minutes getting into something and then just can't sit there and wait for my queue to pop for LFR so I can get a pittance of gold again. I just stopped having fun and even things I did regularly for fun just stopped being fun. I can't log in to an alt without stopping after about 3 quests because I start adding up all the crap I have to do with that character once 90 JUST to be close to where my main is (and the big killer is Golden Lotus and Shado-Pan rep for enchants.) Cataclysm sucked, hard, but MoP was a swing way too far in the other direction but way more of a grind.
Anyone else think Jaime Lannister only has the Kingslayer title because he was just too lazy to kill the king on heroic mode?
Man, i unsubscribed couple of days ago... i was getting tired of my server, friends diminishing, and how raiding has been. Don't get me wrong though ToT is one of the best raids ever in WoW, but heroic mode content for me is too grindy for me to enjoy now.
5.3 in May according to the call. Honestly, who cares how many people from China/Korea quit the game?
By my logic D3 was the best??? what? I said blizzard doesn't deserve to make money off of amazing games that they turn to crap... D1, D2 were amazing... D3, sucked. They abused their record... they knew people would buy D3 regardless of what people said beforehand.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
Of course the subs are declining. More and more morons are leaving the game. They're just not leaving the forums, for whatever reason.
Maybe when WoW is down to 1-2 million subs Blizzard can finally stop with the "must please all" attitude and develop WoW in the way that made it great once more. Rewarding every little action, caps, and queues weren't what made it great.